Books like The Cross and the Switchblade
12 books with a reading profile close to The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson. Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
My Next Breath
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jeremy Renner chronicles his recovery following a near-fatal snowplow accident on New Year’s Day 2023.
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
by Mitch Albom
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Mitch Albom was already running an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Michelle Knight narrates her eleven-year captivity in the house of Ariel Castro, where she was the first of three women abducted.
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
by Don Piper
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1989, a semi-truck crushed Don Piper’s car, leading medical professionals to pronounce him dead at the scene.
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5
An Invisible Thread
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy advertising executive in Manhattan, encountered Maurice Mazyck, an eleven-year-old panhandler, on a street corner.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1993, mountaineer Greg Mortenson failed to summit K2 and wandered, exhausted, into the remote Pakistani village of Korphe.
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Just Mercy
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Bryan Stevenson details his early career founding the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, focusing on the legal battle to exonerate Walter McMillian.
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
by Jean Sasson
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
This memoir chronicles the life of Sultana, a pseudonym for a real Saudi Arabian princess living within the House of Saud.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Ina Garten traces her path from a restrictive childhood to her role as a nuclear budget analyst in the Ford and Carter administrations before pivoting to culinary entrepreneurship.
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Have a Little Faith: a True Story
by Mitch Albom
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Mitch Albom recounts an eight-year odyssey triggered by a request from his childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis, to write his eulogy.
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
memoir, inspirational
The narrative follows two men named Wes Moore who grew up blocks apart in Baltimore.
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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by Ron Hall
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Denver Moore grew up as a modern-day sharecropper in Louisiana, trapped in a system of manual labor that mirrored nineteenth-century slavery.
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